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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Cindy PattonPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780822317500ISBN 10: 0822317508 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 24 April 1996 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsOA book of life-and-death importance on the politics of safe-sex. I can think of few other books that contribute so significantly to both cultural criticism and, in every sense of the term, public health.ONConstance Penley, author of The Future of an Illusion and coeditor of Male Trouble OAn urgent and important work. Once again, PattonOs usual brilliance is much in evidenceNher irreverent and eclectic roving around different cultural and disciplinary domains, her perceptive readings of specific texts, her ear to various subcultural grounds, her wisdom based on personal history in the queer media and AIDS community movements.ONThomas Waugh, author of Hard to Imagine A book of life-and-death importance on the politics of safe-sex. I can think of few other books that contribute so significantly to both cultural criticism and, in every sense of the term, public health. -Constance Penley, author of The Future of an Illusion and coeditor of Male Trouble An urgent and important work. Once again, Patton's usual brilliance is much in evidence-her irreverent and eclectic roving around different cultural and disciplinary domains, her perceptive readings of specific texts, her ear to various subcultural grounds, her wisdom based on personal history in the queer media and AIDS community movements. -Thomas Waugh, author of The Fruit Machine An idiosyncratic and somewhat incoherent investigation into sex education in the age of AIDS. Patton (English/Temple Univ.) explores our country's response to the AIDS crisis vis-a-vis education and prevention, concluding that it is both homophobic and racist. When only the homosexual subculture seemed at risk, contends Patton, little effort was expended by US public health officials on education. Only later, when it became obvious that heterosexuals, too, could become infected with the AIDS virus, was there any concerted effort to prevent its spread. But by identifying AIDS almost exclusively with gay males, public health officials gave heterosexuals a false sense of security, failing to provide the tools they needed to evaluate and reduce their own risk of contracting AIDS. By denying that their own sons might be engaging in sex with other men or injecting drugs into their veins, policymakers did little to protect their children. They preferred to perceive them as too innocent to engage in risky behavior. And since the homosexual population was considered already at risk, little effort was put into stemming the epidemic among gay youth. Youth of color, Patton states, were also neglected by policy makers, since they were viewed as unlikely to change their behavior or escape the environment that marks them as premodern. In addition to criticizing our country's approach to sex education, Patton assaults the media for its lack of integrity. She insists, for example, that the teenage sexuality of Ryan White (who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion) was overlooked, while Philadelphia's Uncle Eddie Savitz was unfairly condemned for transmitting the AIDS virus to large numbers of teenage boys. With its painfully stilted academic prose and suffocating atmosphere of political correctness, Fatal Advice isn't likely to convince those who have seen greater complexity in the matter of AIDS education. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationCindy Patton is Associate Professor, Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory University. She is the author of several books, including Sex and Germs and Inventing AIDS. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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